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Microsoft to acquire Nokia’s smartphone, mobile phone business

In a $5.44 billion Euro-deal, Microsoft to buy substantially all of Nokia's Devices & Services business and license patents

Verizon to buy out Vodafone’s stake in mobile unit for $130B

The cash-and-stock deal will give Verizon Communications 100 percent ownership of its mobile unit

A Samsung smart watch and smartphones with bigger screens expected in Berlin

4K video is also expected to make an appearance on smartphones and TVs

OSPFv3 for IPv4 and IPv6

Cisco IOS support for OSPFv3 for multiple address families

Windows XP’s user share nose-dives

Start of the last push before Microsoft dumps support?

Microsoft ends top Masters certification exams for IT pros

The Masters level certification exams will be retired by Oct. 1

Windows 8 surpasses Vista’s uptake rate — 10 months after launch

New OS gains 2.5 points in August, second-largest one-month jump by a Microsoft operating system

Ahead of iPhone 5S launch, Walmart selling iPhone 5 for $98 with contract

With the iPhone 5S and the rumored iPhone 5C presumably set for their big unveiling on September 10, Apple's iPhone 5 is available for cheaper than ever before.

Carriers restricting vacation times as signs point towards September 20 iPhone launch

It's increasingly starting to look like the iPhone 5S will launch on or around September 20

Facebook legal skirmish highlights user privacy risks